256 Board Testimonials

"BOARD allows us to consolidate in a split second! Yes, consolidation can happen with a single button! Yes, consolidation can happen for 48 manufacturing plants and for 85 warehouses! At the beginning I was very skeptical, but I can guarantee you that it works.”

"The BOARD toolkit puts the solution in the end-users hands, taking the pressure away from other departments. The more I discover about the toolkit the more I realize I am on a learning curve."

“We selected BOARD because, together with its flexibility, it gives us a new approach. For us, this challenging journey wasn’t a mere project. Rather, it was a program, a new path towards an end-to-end budgeting, planning, and forecasting process."

“It’s all about evolving and fine tuning what we have in place. We are constantly looking for ways to make our processes even better using Board. It has virtually unlimited potential for us. I’m looking forward to how it will meet our needs as we continue to evolve and assist growing numbers of clients.”

"The most important figures for management and department heads at the push of a button, without Excel and manual merging of data sets."

“For us, planning is more than simply recording numbers or updating past values. It's about shaping the future. And cause-and-effect relationships play a major role in this. With Board we have a powerful and investment-safe tool with which we can recognize these relationships and plan the effects of monetary and non-monetary influencing variables on company results."

"FP&A organizations can give their executives a sustainable competitive advantage by having the tools to make their company more agile and adaptable."

"Carrying out a budget projection process of this magnitude has exponentially increased the number of numerical figures to be analyzed – (generated by multiplying the relevant metrics by the key business dimensions). We're talking about 47 million projections to date in around 26,400 business units. Without Board, this would have been simply unmanageable."

"The Board platform was the software that obtained the highest score in our analyses, conducted by both the IT department and the Acea purchasing function. The process was efficient because we were able to modify the design of the application that we had in mind even while work was in progress, so to speak, until the launch of the full-fledged pilot project."

"During the first phase, when purchasing needs are expressed and validated, the main actors included the group's requesting companies, Acea executives from HQ, and the main procurement teams. All purchasing needs are reported by the operating companies to Acea's purchasing function who then collaborate to drive the subsequent formalization of the procurement plan. Board allows the actors involved in this phase to apply filters and systems to support analysis, accessing historical data and receiving the needs proposal and key dates as an automatic output – drawing on the historic database."

"Board gives us a “managerial” vision of the group’s financials, which we then share with the organization. Board also enables sales to manage non-billing aspects such as contractual matters, fixed bonuses, flyers, co-marketing activities, preferential exposure, and fixed sell-out figures. These are all then plannable at total customer level or even at individual product line level."

"I look at the numbers, and I have confidence in the numbers. I don't need to check and re-check and be worried that something might change."

"Our primary focus was to implement a solution for our financial planning processes. But, looking at the tool, we immediately realized that it is not just a financial planning tool, it is a tool that can support decision-making."

"Over the years, our planning and forecasting process has increasingly come to involve all business services, and efforts have been made to integrate them. So, Board’s IBP approach proved a perfect match. We needed a robust tool that wouldn’t force us to choose between flexibility and data quality – we wanted both! This was possible with Board."

"The intuitive Board platform makes the know-how transfer tangible for us and enables us to further develop the applications independently, even as specialist users. At the same time, Board can be used extremely flexibly so we can, for example, offer an external, interactive dashboard with budget data for politicians."